Now Nancy has to sift through every inch of that home after life threw her a few curve balls.

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Nancy says her husband went on disability and then in April she lost her steady job doing construction estimates.

"This was supposed to be the family home where this would always be here," Nancy shared with tears in her eyes as she looked around the living room.

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"He's a big dog," she stated thinking of her four legged companion."He goes through a 14 dollar bag of dog food a week. You've got to figure that's 60 dollars of dog food a month, that's a tank of gas so you have to decide," she said, pausing with the realization of the decision she had been faced with, "It's so hard to decide something like that."

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"The thoughts did go through my head," she acknowledged. "If I was to just knock myself off Wayne could pay off the mortgage and everything would be fine," but Nancy quickly realized everything would not be fine. Looking around she knew life was worth so much more than money.

So now she is working to take the lemons that have landed in her lap and she is literally painting her new home, or at least the walls, into a shade of lemonade.